Maui police officers arrest 14 quarantine violators

Illinois women ordered to leave island immediately

Maui police reported arresting 14 individuals during a two-month period ending Wednesday for violating the mandatory 14-day travel quarantine orders.

Those arrested and charged included the two Illinois women, 36-year-old Charlet Dupar and 28-year-old Michelle Cadenas, who were arrested Monday after several photographs circulating through social media allegedly depicted the two in front of several Lahaina locations Sunday.

They arrived on Maui on Aug. 13. Both women were arrested and charged with two counts of emergency rules and orders violations with bail initially set at $4,000 each, police said.

In District Court on Thursday, both women pleaded no contest to one misdemeanor charge of violating emergency rules, court records show. They were each fined $1,000, with $500 of that amount suspended for one year on the condition that each defendant pays $500 within a week.

Also, the women had six days of their 10-day jail sentence suspended for one year on the condition that each defendant leaves the state by the end of Thursday and not return for one year.

Records show the women were to be released at 6:15 p.m. Thursday from Maui Community Correctional Center with Maui police transporting them to Kahului Airport.

Another dozen individuals were arrested and or charged with rules and orders violations. They include:

• On June 20, Patricia Arenas, 43, of Kihei, two counts, released after posting $4,000 bail; 53-year-old Pennsylvania man, released pending investigation and voluntarily returned home; 42-year-old California woman, two counts, released with no charges but detained on extradition warrants.

• On July 18, Tony Shabanaj, 37, of Michigan, two counts, released after posting $4,000 bail.

• On July 27, 54-year-old Arizona woman, released to an outside agency. Lt. Audra Sellers said that due to privacy laws she could not disclose the agency.

• On July 29, Tiani Valle, 25, of Kula, two counts, released after posting $4,000 bail; Lisa Bucek, 43, of Lahaina, two counts, released after posting $4,000 bail.

• On July 30, Joseph Sanvidotto, 74, of Maalaea, two counts, released after posting $4,000 bail; Zachary Bailey, 30, of Lahaina, two counts, released after posting $4,000 bail.

• On Aug. 8, 18-year-old California man, arrested on two counts, released on his own recognizance.

• On Aug. 10, 32-year-old Georgia man, arrested on two counts, released pending further investigation.

• On Aug. 12, Naciye Toraman, 51, of Paia, two counts pertaining to the operation of short-term rental, bed-and-breakfast and transient vacation rental with quarantine violations, released after posting $4,000 bail.

* Melissa Tanji can be reached at mtanji@mauinews.com.